Naseem Surhio

Fall
2012

Naseem K. Surhio specializes in Islamic intellectual history, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. His dissertation, "The Sufi Origins of Modern Salafi Ideology: muhammad Mu'in al-Sindhi's (d. 1747) Mystical Exotericism," focuses on the intersection of 18th century Islamic jurisprudential and mystical thought in South Asia and the Arab islamic world. As a visiting lecturer in the Religion Department, he is teaching Religion 208: Islam.